Book Festival fosters dreams of local writers

3:06 PM,
Apr. 7, 2014

Written by

Tara Pohlkotte
Post-Crescent Community Columnist

Maybe it was fate. Perhaps being named after one of the most famous literary places as the Tara plantation from "Gone With The Wind," it was inevitable that I would build a life around words.

Ever since I was a tiny girl, I would lose myself in stories, reading and creating my own until I filled shelves and pages with them.

In my family of outspoken and dynamic dreamers, I preferred to wrap my dreams in bindings, to clothe my thoughts in black ink and the quiet of the page to ensure that I knew my own voice. My love of words was always something inside me, a way to make sense of the mess and the beauty of life. ...